Light is everything. I believe it sets the mood that the photograph conveys. Your photos are always beautiful and they definitely convey your love of the environment. Thank you so much for sharing them.

Actually it’s been at MAM since October, so anytime you get to Missoula you can check it out. 130 images hand-printed and hand-selected by Adams himself. Takes up the entire main floor of the museum. Mostly landscapes, some portraits, a rare still life or two. The museum is open noon to 5 Tuesday – Saturday, I believe.

Reminds me of a photograph thing I’ve wanted to do. Maybe I’ll do it in the desert when I;m there after the Holidays. Find a great spot. Take a photo every hour for a set # of hours – 6? 12? I’d love to document the changes.

The sky was really nice when I went down there around noon and I marked the spot where I put the tripod, hoping to have a chance for a pretty sunset from the same place. No clouds ever developed though, but the twilight was interesting.

Great idea … I really need to do a study in light some day. Early morning and late afternoon are truly magical lighting times. I would love to see a morning shot of the same place (hint, hint, hint 😉 )

I will try a morning shot next clear morning. For the last few days there has been a cold white lid over this part of the world, with an inversion layer being held in the valley. (I did mark the spot though if I can find it under the snow.)

I am so much impressed by the difference there can be in the same scene in different light conditions, weather conditions and seasons. It makes me wonder about scenes that I have seen that were in remote places and I was only able to see them once, in summer. How would they appear in mid-winter?

It’s amazing how much the same scene changed with different light and especially with different seasons. This scene is less that a mile walk from my house and I visit there often in all seasons and all kinds of weather. Last spring we had a very high runoff from snow melt and the spot from where the photo was taken was under over 10 feet of water. I visited on a cold rainy and windy day and sat on the hillside above the river on a bed of pine needles under a big pine, settled in under my poncho and went right to sleep!